Anthony Jenkins

Not the best

Reviewed: 01-29-25

I’m a big fan of Ryan Holiday but increasingly he can’t seem to keep his bad politics and data poor opinions out of his books. They’re not about the philosophy now they’re about voting Democrat because that’s what he perceives as “right” it’s nonsense and speaks to a limited audience.

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Terrifying

Reviewed: 04-30-24

For all those that “vote blue no matter who” even when that’s a senile old man or pin their hopes on an egotistical halfwit, this should be a wake up. The consequences on not having competent leadership at the helm are terrifying.
The book is absolutely jarring, let’s hope it stays hypothetical and fiction.

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Still amazing

Reviewed: 02-19-20

I read this book as a boy probably 25 years ago and I remember thinking it was amazing but in hindsight I was probably a little young to understand it all, listening to it again all these years later it’s still incredible, it’s a must read or listen for every man.

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Unexpected but great!

Reviewed: 10-28-18

I picked this up expecting to get a series of survival stories one after another with a “lesson” to be learned from each but this book instead is a fantastic look at the psychology of survival. You still get the stories but it adds the biological as well as the social and psychological reasons why some would live, while others perish. Really great listen overall.

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Embarrassing

Reviewed: 10-15-18

I had high hopes for this one, I love the subject matter but this book is a huge miss! On content alone I’d recommend not reading/listening. It really doesn’t get interesting until the last chapter or two which doesn’t make up for the fluff that preceded it. The author continually takes jabs at the people that she has interviewed/worked with, made all the worse by the degrading voices affected by the narrator. And let’s talk narration, whomever hired that woman should re-evaluate their career!! This is easily the worst narration I’ve listened to, the goofy accents bordering on offensive will keep you constantly cringing. I felt embarrassed for everyone involved in the reading of this one, how could the author possibly accept this reading???
Just avoid it, or listen to it to see how bad it really is........

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Unlistenable

Reviewed: 07-18-18

I’m sure this is a great story but the narrator is the worst I’ve ever heard, definitely should have sampled this one first.

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Really good

Reviewed: 05-04-18

I’m a huge fan of Sebastian Junger not only as an author but as a person. The insight he brings to the stories he tells are second to none, War is no exception, it’s fascinating, engaging and terrifying. I greatly appreciated the telling the facts and the personal stories without the political aspects or any question of right or wrong about the war in Afghanistan. It’s about the people here not the politics. Junger is absolutely the right person to read as well, I can’t imagine anyone else doing it with the same feeling.

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Almost perfect

Reviewed: 03-06-18

The only fault I can find is quite regularly it seems like the narrator was leaning away from the microphone, it’s fairly noticeable and takes you out of the story for a second as his voice drifts off. Other than that well read and of course one of the most captivating survival stories of the modern era.

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Not for me

Reviewed: 09-14-17

I found the performance to be one of the worst I've listened to, monotone and droning, the content is unexceptional made all the worse by lacklustre narration, this is the first book I've given up on.

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Kept me interested

Reviewed: 09-10-17

The story is very engaging my only issue (and it's a minor one) is the narration, most of the time it's excellent but the narrator isn't great with accents, especially near the end he drifts in and out of accents for the same character going from almost American to kind of African and then almost to British all for the same person. Anyway great listen overall

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